Les Déracinés (lit.

'The Uprooted') is an 1897 novel by the French writer Maurice Barrès.

It is about a group of young men from Nancy who try to make careers in Paris, inspired by and to varying degrees disappointed by their former philosophy teacher, a man strongly devoted to the French Third Republic.

[1][2][3][4][5] It is the first novel in Barrès' trilogy Le Roman de l'énergie nationale (lit.

It was followed by L'Appel au soldat [fr] (1900) and Leurs figures (1902).